Empower

A seasonal guide to insulting people…

Market Leader January 2012

We know what we think about brands. But what do brands think of us? Jeremy Bullmore speculates

I’ve written about

It’s time to stop looking on the bright side

stop

We need more case histories of brand failures, says Rory Sutherland

You know those women who occasionally hang around outside

‘Eventful’ spaces can provide a creative platform

creative

The traditional connection between ‘marketing’ and ‘events’ is a curiously dysfunctional one. It conjures images of the cavalier executive impulsively

Fail fast and fix it

fast

IN AGILE MARKETING Anthony Freeling successfully combines theory and practice and comes up with a neat concept. Agility is something

2011: The year of the desperate optimist

optimistic

Ben Hayman urges brands to acknowledge consumers’ needs for optimism, against the odds

As An avid football fan, I know

A new view of the future media landscape

compass - Market Leader 2011

Forecasting is always difficult in periods of disruption – and the communication environment is in just such a situation. C

Business models and a revised big bang theory

Market Leader 2011

IN RESPONSE  to C John Brady’s feature ‘A new view of the future of media landscape’ (Market Leader Q1

Evolution of technology services

phone

LAURIE YOUNG is a leader – and writer of several books – in UK professional services marketing and his co-author

In praise of scepticism

praise

Jeremy Bullmore says we shouldn’t worry if people are sceptical about marketing, it’s scepticism about the police that should concern

Think before you link...

link

Keith Lucas looks at the dangers of alienating consumers with inappropriate product tie-ins

What does the man who plays a

Industry issues: time for advertisers and agencies to work together

Time for advertisers and agencies to work together

Looking ahead, there is definitely no shortage of big issues coming our way. Firstly, there is the macro issue of

Coping with the post-advertising age

ads

I started work in advertising just over 30 years ago in October 1975. I remember well my first day at

Why innovation funnels don't work and why rockets do

rocket

It's true. Innovation funnels don't work. In fact, they stifle creativity and make innovation less likely to be successful.

But

Brand onions and other barriers to creativity

onions

THOUGHT 1: MARKETING COMMUNICATION PROCESSES ARE OVERLY REDUCTIVE TO THE POINT OF BECOMING SELFDESTRUCTIVE

All of us love our big

Interactivity is as old as Gutenberg – it's just never had a voice before

clock

There seems to be a widely held and virtually unchallenged belief that, thanks to the internet, the nature of mass

Beware the siren voices of innovation

siren

It is a funny thing that people who write and think about strategy and about marketing almost never seem to

Can segmentation ever deliver the goods?

Fedex

According to a 2004 Economist Intelligence Unit survey, 59% of senior executives in large companies said they had conducted a

Survival of the fittest

survive

The jungle that is UK retail is getting tougher. Consumer debt, stealth taxes and new necessities, such as mobiles, Sky

Vodafone: adopting a system for managing new ideas

vodaphone

The Vodafone Group provides a full range of mobile telecommunications services, including voice and data communications. Vodafone has equity interests

In praise of interior decorators (or at least some of them)

decor

I don't know much about interior decorators and have never directly employed one. But it seems to me, at least

'All great truths begin as blasphemies'

truth

Thank you for the opportunity to meet and talk with you. Especially since I'm in the wrong business and you're